All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts)
All Souls Church, also known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Braintree, is a church on the National Register of Historic Places, it is located at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The building is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top. The gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and the entrance is set under a gabled entry porch below a large window with Gothic tracery. The church was designed by Boston architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr. and built in 1905 for a congregation organized in 1900; it is Braintree's first stone church building. Land for the building was donated by George O. Wales, a leading force in uniting Braintree's Unitarian and Universalist congregations.[2]
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Location | 196 Elm Street, Braintree, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°13′23″N 71°0′2″W |
Built | 1904 |
Architect | Edwin J. Lewis Jr. |
Architectural style | English Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 15000389[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 7, 2015 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- "MACRIS inventory record for All Souls Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-07-17.